Category Archives: Community/Partners

SciFi vs Reality: Space Station Crew Quarters

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Expedition Commander Scott Kelly has done a video tour of his personal quarters aboard the ISS, where he sleeps, calls home, does some work on his computers, and bathes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q4dG9vSyUFQ

It should be noted that his quarters are smaller than most people’s closets.  Compare this to the lavish quarters seen in SciFi shows like Star Trek (seen below from memory-alpha.org).  We clearly have a long way to go before we catch up with SciFi’s vision of living and working in space.

Video originally seen at Universe Today.

Seth Godin explains why you should support Mach 30

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Ok, that’s a bit of a stretch.  Seth probably doesn’t know about Mach 30 (yet).

But the point he made about Who owns Wikipedia on his blog this morning applies here as well.

The reason Mach 30 is incorporating as a nonprofit, and is looking to you, our supporters, for funding (rather than large government grants) is because we believe a space access organization owned by “regular people who want to go to space” is the only way “regular people” will ever really get to go to space.

If you feel the same, click here to show your support with a $25.00 gift.

Communication method to “our” community

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Dear Mach 30 board,

I think I’ve worked out the most critical issue in my mind about the process of increasing Mach 30 participation.  I’ve developed this idea based on my experience with Cstart and the Open Space Movement.  Both of these groups formed when a community of individuals that were communicating in other ways decided that they should form an organization.  Cstart was formed by Reddit subscribers and most of OSM’s members came from the something aweful forums.  In the past few weeks, I have seen the Cstart model work well when conducting their distributed collaborative work on Reddit and then link back to their website.

I am admitedly not an expert in communcations or public relations but I think it will be critically important to develop an avenue of communication.  Since the Mach 30 organization formed backwards or in reverse of the above examples, what we need now is a community to grow around us instead of an organization to grow out of a community.  What communication avenues are best suited to have a community form around them?  In this age of instant communication and 24/7 access is there another mechanism to reach a large audience who will then self-select to join us?

Respect,
-Greg